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For parenting advice, tips and support, these organisations provide all the information you need.

Begin before birth

www.beginbeforebirth.org
Information about the importance of wellbeing during pregnancy, and how to give your baby the best start in life.

Cry-sis

www.cry-sis.org.uk
0845 122 8669
Support for families with excessively crying, sleepless and demanding babies. The website has a handy checklist for settling your baby and advice about different routines and methods to help him sleep. The helpline is open 9am-10pm, seven days a week.

Family Action

www.family-action.org.uk
Formerly the Family Welfare Association, Family Action helps families to find the best solutions to their problems. Working with people to build confidence and self-esteem, enabling children to have fun and excitement and lone parents to make friends.

Family and Childcare Trust

www.familyandchildcaretrust.org
020 7424 3460
The FPI supports parents to bring up their children, to promote the wellbeing of families and to make society more family-friendly. The website has information on a variety of subjects, including parenting tips.

Family Links

www.familylinks.org.uk
Promoting loving, kind relationships within families. The Parenting Puzzle guide encourages parents to get the best out of family life and offers positive, practical ways of guiding children so they learn to handle their feelings and their behaviour.

Family Lives

www.familylives.org.uk
0808 800 2222
Family Lives works to offer help and support through an innovative range of free, flexible, responsive services that are shaped by parents for parents, including information and support for lone parents.

Fatherhood Institute

Fathers To Be International

www.fatherstobe.org
Supporting expectant and new dads by reinforcing their relationship with themselves, their partners, their babies and the health professionals caring for the family.

Home-Start

www.home-start.org.uk
Home-Start visits families in their homes to offer practical help and advice if you are struggling for any reason such as isolation, the emotional demands of having twins, bereavement or illness.

OXPIP

www.oxpip.org.uk
01865 778034
OXPIP helps parents and their babies to build close and loving relationships from the start of life. It offers short-term, intensive therapeutic support to parents and their babies from conception to two years of age.

Parent Practice

www.theparentpractice.com
020 8673 3444
The Parent Practice is a privately run organisation offering home-visits, telephone consultations and courses on parenting, covering subjects such as positive discipline and how to have harmonious home.

Relate for Parents

www.relateforparents.org.uk
0300 100 1234
Relate’s parenting site is aimed directly at parents and has useful information and ideas for parents. The charity also runs SMS and online chat services so you can have your parenting questions answered by an expert online or by text message.

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